Rayz add three to up roster to 27

The Rayz continue to load up their roster for training camp. Corpus
Christi added three more players on Wednesday, signing forwards Ted
Bickel and Vin Hellemeyer and defenseman Jamie Routledge. That gives
the team 27 players for training camp, which begins on Monday. The team
will open the Central Hockey League season opener on Oct. 21 at home
against Laredo.

Bickel, 23, playing the past three seasons at St. Olaf College in
Northfield, Minn. In 95 collegiate games, the 6-foot-3, 210-pounder had
35 goals and 38 assists with 88 penalty minutes. Hellemeyer, 24, is a
third-year pro who had eight goals and nine assists in the United
league with Port Huron and Flint. The 5-9, 185-pound Yale product spent
2004-05 in the CHL with the now-defunct Topeka Tarantulas.

The 6-1, 195-pound Routledge spent the past four seasons at the
Royal Military College of Canada. In 89 games, he had two goals and
eight assists and compiled 160 penalty minutes.